Lychgate Approximately 35 Metres to East of Church of Saint Luke
LYCHGATE APPROXIMATELY 35 METRES TO EAST OF CHURCH OF SAINT LUKE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176238
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lychgate Approximately 35 Metres to East of Church of Saint Luke
- Statutory Address:
- LYCHGATE APPROXIMATELY 35 METRES TO EAST OF CHURCH OF SAINT LUKE, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176238
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lychgate Approximately 35 Metres to East of Church of Saint Luke
- Statutory Address 1:
- LYCHGATE APPROXIMATELY 35 METRES TO EAST OF CHURCH OF SAINT LUKE, CHURCH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- LYCHGATE APPROXIMATELY 35 METRES TO EAST OF CHURCH OF SAINT LUKE, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hodnet
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ6129928595
Details
SJ 6028-6128
13/46
HODNET C.P.
CHURCH STREET (North side)
Lychgate approx. 35 metres
to east of Church of Saint
Luke
GV
II
Lychgate. Circa 1870, possibly by Anthony Salvin. Red sandstone ashlar
with some yellow sandstone ashlar. Plain tile roof. Decorated Gothic
Style. Buttresses with chamfered offsets and parapeted gable ends with
shaped kneelers and moulded copings. Entrances with recessed chamfered
arches and half-octagonal piers with moulded capitals and stops at rear.
3-light side openings with chamfered arches and octagonal shafts with
moulded capitals. Pair of wooden gates to east, each with triple
chamfered-arched lights. 6 stone steps up from east with coped side
walls and square end piers. Interior: 3-bay roof consisting of
chamfered arched-braced collar trusses springing from curved braces
resting on small stone corbels. Single purlins. Stone side benches.
Hodnet Hall (not included on this list) by Anthony Salvin was built in
1870 and the Percy chapel was added to the Church of Saint Luke (q.v.)
in the same year. Salvin was possibly the architect of the lychgate too.
Listing NGR: SJ6129928595
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260198
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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